Mark Bagley - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mark Bagley - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BENDIS IS COMING! … Back! … To Marvel! … For a backup story in Avengers #800! https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/11/bendis-avengers-800/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:37 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54797 Brian Michael Bendis is part of the reason I got back into reading Marvel Comics. Even when I wasn’t a Wednesday warrior during a stretch from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, I had amassed a stack of New Avengers trades, along with events like House of M, Secret Invasion and Siege. They presented Marvel’s...

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]]> 54797 BatChat With Matt & Will: Intercompany Crossovers (w/ Tony Thornley) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/08/batchat-with-matt-will-intercompany-crossovers-w-tony-thornley/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44134 Fellow ComicsXF writer Tony Thornley joins us this week just in time for the new Batman/Spawn crossover to talk about other times that Batman has met characters from across the comic book omniverse. Batman meets alien hunters, an arachnid themed hero and the hellspawn he’ll be meeting again. Intercompany crossovers are a weird and wild...

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]]> 44134 Sinister War #4 Is a Final Chapter in Search of an Ending https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/01/sinister-war-4-is-a-final-chapter-in-search-of-an-ending/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33215 Amazing Spider-Man’s finale event barrels frustratingly to a non-conclusion in Sinister War #4. Written by Nick Spencer & Ed Brisson; Drawn by Mark Bagley, Dio Neves, and Marcelo Ferreira; Inked by Andrew Hennessy, Andy Owens, Dio Neves, and Marcelo Ferreira; Colored by Brian Reber with Andrew Crossley; Lettered by Joe Caramagna. Sinister War #4 feels...

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]]> 33215 Go Behind Bars with J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/25/go-behind-bars-with-j-jonah-jameson-in-spider-man-life-story-annual-1/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33062 Spider-Man. He’s a threat. He’s a menace. And J. Jonah Jameson will do whatever it takes to make the world see it. But in this companion piece to 2019’s Spider-Man: Life Story, will his decades of obsession bear fruit for Jonah … or be his destruction? Let’s do hard time with Spider-Man: Life Story Annual...

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]]> 33062 Sinister War #3 Still Hasn’t Figured Out How To Be Fun https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/18/sinister-war-3-still-hasnt-figured-out-how-to-be-fun/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32826 The masked melee continues to multiply in Sinister War #3! Facing down the barrel of nearly 40 villains, Spider-Man continues to try and break free of this volume’s finale. Written by Nick Spencer and Ed Brisson. Drawn by Mark Bagley, Carlos Gómez, and Zé Carlos. Inked by Andrew Hennessy, Andy Owens, John Dell, Carlos Gómez,...

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]]> 32826 The Sinisters Six All Share A Common Goal In Sinister War #2 https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/04/the-sinisters-six-all-share-a-common-goal-in-sinister-war-2/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32348 We got teams for DAYS in the sophomore installment of Nick Spencer’s conclusion to Amazing Spider-Man, Sinister War #2! Written by Nick Spencer & Ed Brisson. Drawn by Mark Bagley, Diogenes Neves, Carlos Gómez, and Zé Carlos. Inked by Andrew Hennessy, John Dell, Andy Owens, Carlos Gómez, and Zé Carlos. Colored by Brian Reber. Lettered...

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]]> 32348 Masochism and Futility: Sinister War #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/12/masochism-and-futility-sinister-war-1/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30781 Justin’s masochistic streak gets Spider-themed in Sinister War #1! The latest and final “event” spinning out of Nick Spencer’s tenure on Amazing Spider-Man. Written by Nick Spencer. Drawn by Mark Bagley. Inked by Andrew Hennessy, John Dell, & Andy Owens. Colored by Brian Reber. Lettered by Joe Caramagna. I read all 70 issues (plus specials)...

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]]> 30781 Who’s In the Details? We’ll Give You One Guess In Amazing Spider-Man #60 https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/24/whos-in-the-details-well-give-you-one-guess-in-amazing-spider-man-60/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:01:48 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=21809 Peter Parker learns all the world’s a stage in another entry from Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Andrew Hennessey, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Joe Caramagna. Look, I think we know the pattern with Amazing Spider-Man at this point. Something’s going to happen. It’s going to be better than normal. It might even be good. Hell,...

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]]> 21809 Does Amazing Spider-Man #57 Break the Mold? https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/13/does-amazing-spider-man-57-break-the-mold/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12562 Spider-Man and Norman Osborn have another staring contest in Amazing Spider-Man #57 written by Nick Spencer, pencilled by Mark Bagley, inked by Andrew Hennessey and John Dell with Andy Owens, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Edgar Delgado, and lettered by Joe Caramagna. I’ve been talking for weeks now about how disappointing Last Remains has been....

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